I once had a client who, as a junior marketing person, had worked on this. He told tales of standing in damp Solihull carparks trying to get the voice to actually work so they could demonstrate it to government ministers, so they could get more money to keep the company going.

But look at those graphics - a solid-state electronic dash clearly sharing an inspirational path with 2001 et al, but not in a science-fiction film, in a mass-produced car.